#306 Sexual Fluidity, Energy Healing, & Hypnosis - April Adams

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health, Sexuality

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2016

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

Author/life-coach April Adams clarifies what an "energy healer" actually does despite it sounding like new-age b.s. She talks about techniques she has used to deal with her childhood trauma and heal others. She opens up about her experiences with swinging, sexual fluidity, embracing her attraction to women fairly late in life and possible love addiction/fear of intimacy in her same-sex marriage. April's book is Essence: Ending Emptiness, Finding Fulfillment Her websites are www.AprilAdams.org and www.FillingYourCup.com This episode is sponsored by TommyJohn. For 20% off your first order go to www.TommyJohn.com and use offer code MENTAL This episode is sponsored by TalkSpace. For $30 off your first month of online therapy go to www.TalkSpace.com/mihh and use offer code MIHH To support the podcast (and get rewards from Paul) become a monthly donor via Patreon www.patreon.com/mentalpod See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 306 with my guest April Adams.
0:06.6	We're going to talk about Androgeny, Swinging, Same-sex Marriage, Childhood, Trauma, Energy
0:12.7	Healing, and Hypnosis.
0:14.9	I'm Paul Gilmartin.
0:16.5	This is the Metal-Illness Happy Hour, a place for honesty about all the battles in our
0:20.2	heads for medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction, to everyday
0:25.5	compulsive negative thinking.
0:27.1	The show's not meant to be a substitute for professional mental counseling.
0:30.7	I'm not a therapist, it's not a doctor's office.
0:33.2	It's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.
0:36.9	The website for this show is mentalpod.com.
0:40.5	Go there, check it out.
0:41.9	You can browse the blogs.
0:45.0	You can browse the forum, maybe post in the forum.
0:47.9	You can fill out an anonymous survey.
0:50.0	Maybe we'll read your survey here on the show.
0:53.5	You can support the show, which reminds me of...
0:56.8	As I've mentioned the last week or two, we are now accepting monthly donations on Patreon.
1:04.4	So look for that link on our website.
1:09.8	When you do a monthly donation through Patreon, you'll also get rewards, which PayPal doesn't
1:17.1	allow you to do.
1:18.5	If you want to switch from PayPal to Patreon, probably benefit you more if you care to get
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